The local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years

Local prisons of the late nineteenth century refined harsh systems of punishment: 2 years' local imprisonment was considered the most severe punishment known to

This social history analyses a period in which the modern prison faced serious challenges both on practical & philosophical grounds. These included the use of p

Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 18

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary so